Senator Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed on Thursday emerged as the running mate of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi.

Quest Times reports the unveiling of the vice-presidential candidate has been rescheduled for Friday, July 8 at the party’s headquarters, Abuja.

Here are 7 facts you may not know about Baba-Ahmed;

Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed was born to the Baba-Ahmed family in Zaria, Kaduna on July 7, 1969.

He is among the thirty-three children of his father, Baba Ahmed, who was an Arab cattle-trader from modern-day Mauritania who later became a notable professor and expert on Islamic jurisprudence.

The 53-year-old is an academic and businessman and was once a presidential aspirant under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2019.

He was a member of the House of Representatives between 2003 and 2007 and was elected Senator for Kaduna North, in Kaduna State, Nigeria in April 2011 running on the Congress for Progressive Change ticket, with a remarkable record of the credit of sponsoring important legislation within a short time.

Baba-Ahmed has four degrees; a BSc and MSc in Economics from the University of Maiduguri, an MBA from the University of Wales, Cardiff, and in 2006, he completed his PhD studies, earning the title of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Westminster. He is also the Proprietor and Chancellor of Baze University, Abuja, and Baba-Ahmed University, Kano.

Sen. Baba-Ahmed is a well-accomplished philanthropist. Among many of his corporate social responsibility projects; he built and donated two junior secondary schools with a total capacity of 4,000 students. It is worthy of note that the schools have graduated over 6,000 students to date.

In 2015, Sen. Baba-Ahmed was appointed as Chairman of, the Board of Trustees (BOT) of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Hope Alive Foundation – which campaigns for the post-service economic survival of corps members who suffered permanent disability during service.

https://www.thequesttimes.com/baba-ahmed-7-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-obis-running-mate/

Nice one

Good choice.

Imagine not voting for this combo due to primordial sentiments, posterity will never forgive you!

Its a battle over the soul of Nigeria.

Bury sentiment and evangelize this ticket.

We don't care

He is the vice President of the federal republic of Nigeria come February 2023

Real Madrid and Liverpool in one team

The NW VP choice make sense

He is not even a full-Nigerian.

Nice choice though.

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He is not even a full-Nigerian.

Nice choice though.

no body is full Nigeria,. Nigeria is just a name to unify of the people

This guy is a lot better than the Pandora criminal who spent Methuselah years studying a lowly rated social sciences course in the University.